Results for passive
Definitions of passive:
part of speech: adjective
Suffering: unresisting: not acting: ( gram.) expressing the suffering of an action.
part of speech: adjective
Not opposing or resisting; suffering without resistance; submissive; denoting that form of a verb in which the object of the active voice becomes the subject.
part of speech: adjective
Suffering without resisting; not acting but acted upon; as, a passive disposition; submissive; in grammar, indicating that form of the transitive verb which asserts that the subject is acted upon.
part of speech: adverb
PASSIVELY.
Usage examples for passive:
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Elsie's tears had ceased to flow, but they were still trembling in her eyes, and the little face wore a very sad and troubled expression as she stood patiently passive in her nurse's hands.
"Elsie Dinsmore", Martha Finley -
Hitherto, in the spirit of her passive and gentle character, she had taken the engagement between Evelyn and Lord Vargrave almost as a matter of course.
"Alice, or The Mysteries, Book I", Edward Bulwer Lytton